Psychology graduate student Stephen Marshall was one of five Ohio University graduate students who received Named Fellowships for the 2014-15 school year to pursue research and creative projects.
Each of the five was awarded a fellowship of $15,000, plus a full tuition scholarship for fall and spring semesters.
Marshall was named the Graduate College Fellow.
He is a fourth-year student pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He is from Athens, OH.
His project is “At-risk high schoolers transitioning to adulthood: mental health and mediating factors that impact early outcomes.”
“I have been interested in helping individuals make the transition to adulthood ever since my first job as a counselor for college students. In the past decade, the field of psychology has recognized the late teens to late 20s as an important, dynamic stage of development termed ’emerging adulthood,'” he said.
“The Center for Intervention Research in Schools at Ohio University recently completed a study that tracked a local cohort of high school students who were at-risk because of emotional or behavioral problems. The Named Fellowship will enable me to reconnect with these students to assess factors that predict transitional outcomes in their first year after leaving high school. As little research has been conducted on young adult outcomes of at-risk high school students, this project will expand understanding of emerging adulthood and perhaps inform developmentally sensitive intervention efforts for mental health problems.”
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